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Comentario de Almarsguides

I skinned this off of a Bloodthirsty Worg in Howling Fjord------------------70-80 Leveling Guidealmarsguides.com

Comentario de Titonka

Got one off of spiders North of K3. Bad drop rate IMO. Spent about 2 hours there

Comentario de kaliopellane

I skinned an arctic fur from a Fanggore Worg in Howling Fjord, north of Westguard Keep. This item is rare quality, which probably accounts for its low drop rate. I spent about 90 minutes skinning and only got one.

Comentario de equiraptor

Just skinned one, randomly, unintentionally, off of an Arctic Grizzly Cub. I wonder what else they skin from, and what the drop rates will turn out to be.

Comentario de fr0d0b0ls0n

They seem to drop from almost every mob that can be skinned. At least lvl 73+, i haven't seen one at lower level. I skinned one from a Gargoyle, a Drakonid in Violet Hold, and 3 from bears in Grizzly Hills.

Comentario de doranobaka

So now leatherworking has an equivalent of a black/fel/frost lotus. :/

Comentario de Yuksu93

so even though it has low chance it seems a good chance you'll get one if you skin enough which you probably will!

Comentario de anakha

Got one from a shark near the pirate town in Howling Fjord. Got another one few mins later from a bear near the same town.

It seems this is a random drop from any skinnable mob as pointed above.

Comentario de pythagoris

Skinners have always had increased drop rates if you had increased skill, Pre-TBC it was required to have increased skinning skill (315) to skin certian mobs (Onyxia). Back then you used to get 1-3 scales every time, but now its possible to get 4 every time (try skinning ony with 375 skinning), and thats because with an increase of skinning skill you get more scales. Legit proof that inc skinning = inc drop rate/quantity.

Comentario de Arcorne

Comentario de MihaiLung

I got it from a level 70 Shoveltusk with ~425 skinning skill, so it isn't impossible to drop from 70 mobs, it is probabely just a incredibely low chance.

Comentario de Avashnea

I've had 3 drop off lvl 70-71 mobs with 450 skinning

Comentario de gnidleif

Been leveling now to level 68, been through Sholazar.. you know.. the place with all the beasts, got 450 skinning and a total of 8 of these, and this is from skinning every single skinnable mob since I got to northrend..in other words, very low droprate.

Recommended is to buy the epic recipes from Dalaran by using these, they only require 2 of these each and they're totally worth it.

Comentario de canyoneagle

I've been skinning everything I can (my own kills and abandoned kills) in borean tundra and have looted perhaps 5 of these so far. I've been selling them for 35g on the elune server AH and buyers are snapping them up.

Context, my skinning is 380

Comentario de metakerk

Meh, am I just getting really lucky or does it have an increased droprate since beta? Am now level 73 with 450 skinning and got 10 of these.

Comentario de trog

That is about where I am, level 74 and I've gotten 8 so far. They seemed to be dropping very well from the dragons around the Nexus.

Comentario de Samfisher

Comentario de Nokturnal

Maybe it's just me but I noticed a higher drop rate on lower mobs. Like the animals in Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord seemed to drop the most for me and friends.

Comentario de Acosn

It may be tempting to save these to buy the epic crafting patterns from Dalaran but I'll say this outright: Wait till you have 440 LW'ing to even consider buying them. Arctic furs are RARE, and beyond that they're the easiest way to level LW'ing past 410 or so (the alternative is upwards of 10 thick B leathers a pop...plus other non-skinning mats like crystals) and buying those epic patterns will get you some real nice paper weights if you can't use them.

At any rate, by current AH rates on my server (50-75 gold apiece) it's actually a deal to buy two, craft the epic LW'ing leg armor kits, and then use that money to buy more arctic furs and so on.

Comentario de conker87

I got one off a Level 71 Shoveltusk Bull.

Comentario de conker87

Whoa, that's my SECOND in 10 minutes. Lucky streak?

Comentario de Andreah1

Since lvl 70 I have accumulated over 35 of these and I am now 78 yes the higher ur skill lvl in skinning the higher the drop rate for these. You can get these off any mob in Northrend sometimes I have gotten up to 2 in a row from mobs.

Comentario de gizmovision

I haven't found having a higher skinning level to drop more or better skins when skinning.I been at max for 4 dayz now. I still get scraps off of mobs and the arctic fur hasn't fallen any better from my kills or abandoned kills.Although I have gotten 8 skins so far and yet to make it into the city...

Comentario de BillOnHwy1

The price given here for Arctic Fur on November 22, 2008, was 3 gold. That has to be wrong because a vendor buys it at 8g. Another source says the median AH price is 69g 23s.

Comentario de gxavier

I agree. Don't use these to buy recipes until you actually need them. They are far more valuable giving skill-ups at the 410 and 425 level.

I found leveling to 80, I only skinned about 15 arctic fur.. that's it. The drop rate is horrible, usually less than 1% for just about everything.

On icecrown these are going for about 100 gold a piece. You use 2 of them in the epic leg patches, which you can then sell for around that price, sometimes more than the mats.

Trying to farm for these is rediculous, btw. I've skinned about 500 regular borean leather in the last couple hours and didn't get a single fur.

Comentario de scowl

Sold a stack of 4 for 480g.

Comentario de kenyon9996

That's weird. I just got to 375 skinning today (powerleveled it from 1 last night) and after about a half hour or so skinning, I've gotten 3. Im grinding the kodos outside warsong hold in Borean. Seem to have a 5-10% drop rate for me so far.

Comentario de Gemily

I think it's good to note that it seems that you must be a leatherworker to have these drop from skinning.

That's not confirmed, but I have two skinners, one is a leatherworker and the other skinner/miner. The character that is a LW skilled up her skinning to 450 and got about 3 of these. But the other character is now 450 and hasn't had a single arctic fur drop.

Comentario de Linden

Um.. I added a reply here but it didn't seem to take. Weird.

Anyway, no, you don't have to be LW to get these. My hunter is Skinng and Jewelcrafting, and I've had two of these furs.

Comentario de Suzuran

My skinner/miner got one on her 2nd skin in Northrend. So confirmed you do not need leather-working as a profession.

Comentario de Ubran

I think I'm just lucky, but on my (now 72) rogue, I came to Northrend at 70, hit 450 skinning before 71 character level and had an arctic fur from my first skin in Northrend, a Scourged Flamebringer thing at Valiance Keep, and another 3 furs over in Howling Fjord.

Comentario de omish

I have actually found a fairly good drop rate for these things, at least for horde. As a level 75 boomkin, I can sweep a quarter of the nerubian mines surrounding warsong hold in one go. In about an hour I can net 5-10 chitin, 3-5 furs, and a ton of borean leather. Sorry alliance, this spot is horde only.

Comentario de zazumage

My advice for maximizing the amount of these you get is to go back to Howling Fjord once you're leveling 80 and AoE grind some of the lower level mobs there.

Packs of Shoveltusk roam around and as a previous user has posted, the higher your skinning is, the higher the drop rate will be.

You can use these furs for higher level recipes and also to purchase recipes. In other words, have a ton of these on hands. before you get up to around 440 LW.

Comentario de Azshade

I highly disagree with this comment.

I used to be a 315 (than 325) skinner back in ony (Finkles / Zulian) and saw 1-3 for the longest time. Than as AQ was launched, suddenly I started seeing 2-4. If you look at her "skinned" drop table, you will see it's now listed as 2-4.

Why? Blizzard changed it. Because more people were getting geared and into BWL, so they needed more cloaks.

Drop rate has nothing to do with skinning. There's been blue posts about drop rate + amount of herbs gathered, which granted is a different profession, but still worth noting.

As for some anecdotal experience, today a 427 skinner ran ony with us and got 2 scales.

Comentario de Treehouse

Anyone know if droprate has been lowered? I've skinned 5-600 mobs in the past few days without getting a single arctic fur.

Comentario de sl0shk0sh

While the drop rate on these is low, you benefit from the fact that they can be skinned from anything. So if you're farming Dragonscales, or Jormungar scales, or even regular leather, you will end up getting at least 1 per hour. In my opinion this makes up for the low drop rate since you don't have to fly around searching for specific mobs.

Comentario de ecro

The place to be: Zul'Drak, north of The Argent Stand, the area around 36,50... It's a skinner's heaven because everyone is killing and looting the various bats and spiders there for a quest. I easily pick up a couple of stacks of Borean Leather within a few minutes plus the occasional Arctic Fur.... Don't tell anyone!

Comentario de m1k3yb

Comentario de Zleepnir

Seriously, though, it's a pretty good place to farm Borean Leather, and I find I get about one Arctic fur every 20-30 minutes there.

Comentario de riffraff

I spent some time killing Stoic Mammoths and didn't get any to drop. I didn't see them on the list here of stuff that you can skin to get them, I'm guessing that this animal is one exception.

Comentario de flatty

This is called "AoE grinding" and is pretty well known... so well known that Blizzard implemented animals that move in huge packs to make it even easier. Leather is dropping its price day by day. Few weeks more and it will be around 10-15G per stack, you can bet on it. People will go crazy for old leather maybe, that no one will be farming anymore (Knothide anyone?).

The gorilla grind was officially introduced to everyone by Big Red Kitty (aka BRK) who documented the use of gorillas as AoE grinding machines:

Comentario de Crazydemon

Just dropped from a serpent near Nexus and i didn't even kill it, i just found it dead and skinned it...lol.In my realm it sells between 50g and 80g. :)

Comentario de Leip

over 50g per piece on my server

Comentario de Covet17

100g each on Aggramar EU. So the "Make a kit and sell it to get your money back to buy more" thing won't work as the kits only sell for 100g on their own.

It's ridiculous, I make no profit making or selling the kits and spend half my gold on the fur just to level my Leatherworking..

Comentario de Sathsarrion

If you are ONLY after these and the other drops/skins from the mobs arent that important to you, I suggest grinding the rhinos northeast of warsong hold.

Tightly packed mobs make for easy AOE farming (hunter with a gorilla, mage, etc) and they are low lvl so you dont randomly die when you pull a few extra.

And there are so many of them that you never run out of mobs to kill unless there are more people in the area.

I skinned 12 of these from the rhinos in one evening while leveling from 70 with my hunter.

(watch out for nedar lord of rhinos tho if your low lvl)

Comentario de lastbornnobody

Even with so many of them, it is a horrible drop rate. I spent about an hour and a half on my lvl 80 feral druid in bear form trying to farm this and only got 2. I could kill like 30 at a time in bear form and still only 2 dropped. This is not the best spot to farm them.

Comentario de emage

Follow up, seems to drop better afer server reset. Also got good drops from the flying thing just outside of borneo, one of the beginning quests. Eazy with a mage they are within range and are fast respawns.

Comentario de zeita

Confirmed. My hunter skinned two of them in a single day, near the DEHTA camp in Borean (one off a Carabou, one off a Mammoth)

Comentario de sharixtroll

I found it great to grind the Emperor Cobras just outside of the main Gorloc camp in Sholazar basin to get those. Grinded for like 20 mins, and got 4 of 'em. on my server, those sells for 50-80g, so I made a nice 200g out of it :DNot sure if it was just pure luck, or that those Cobras actually drops 'em more? Well anyways, you skin a snake, and you get an Arctic piece of fur from it? ...something is wrong here....

Comentario de zootomy

Had really good drop rates in Grizzly Hills. Just doing the beginning quests there for the deer meat and bear flanks, I got 4 Arctic Furs.

Comentario de Flick

The drop rate seems to be right around 1% for all mobs in Northrend, regardless of level or location. Sort the data by Count (to get higher sample size) and it's all right around 1% until you start getting to the lower sample sizes.

Comentario de Fengor

Having done no serious farming for leather yet I can say that the 1% drop rate is quite right. Leveling from 70-80 and skinning compulsivly, I only looted 12 of these.

Comentario de superxdude

Have done some serious AOE farming on shoveltusks...surprised my data is not on there. I've killed and skinned 2000+ shoveltusks for meat and skin. 1% does sound about right, but my data seems to be missing.

edit - data was there, was looking at wrong place

Comentario de Brokensoul

Got patience and a level 70 lock you cba to level?Get arctic furs and money while you level!

I've been playing around on my lock for a while now, currently 73 specced 23/0/41 for Siphon Life & Shadowfury. I levelled skinning when realizing that I could AoE Shoveltusk packs in howling fjord incredibly easy, and so I embarked on my epic journey of money!I have now gotten 11 arctic furs in 1½ hours, just by Siphon Life'ing all shoveltusks I see, shadowfury -> rain of chaos and then another rain of chaos if necessary, looted and skinned.You get flanks that sell for 1g a piece on my AH, a heap of borean leather, junk, greens and shoveltusk meats you can vendor 20/5g, if you can't AH them. They respawn everywhere very fast, and you can just go from pack to pack.(Herbalism with this, is great as well.)Go go, hope this was useful.

Comentario de superxdude

While my other two toons are doing the holiday quests, my mage is getting rested XP...

I plan on grinding to 74 or so then starting to quest finally in Northrend

Comentario de IHazCookies

I was kinda pleased when I got 3 of these in 1 instance run of Violet Hold. :oWhat with it being a 1% drop rate. (Also got 2 in a row while in Violet Hold).

Comentario de vexation

I suggest you check your AH prices and put these up when the fur is high. On my server this item hovers from 75 to 100 gold.

On a more interesting note, I just had three of these drop back to back. The odds of tha happening again are insanely low.

Comentario de cerii

Bottom of the Crystalweb spider cave in storm peaks there's 3 Purple spiders on a constant respawn timer. I got 2 of these Arctic furs in about 45mins-1hr there farming.

Comentario de DarkSoldier8

Doing the beginning Quests out in Borean I gathered 3 of these. Only got them off of the Nerub'ar Invaders.Grinded them again last night and got another 3 in about an hour.

Comentario de Funkytrip

So far I've been very unlucky.... been grinding the cave dweller worgs in Storm peak for a while now and killed around 420 mobs... 1 fur so far :(

The worg cave is a great skinning place tho...the wolves spawn so fast you can't keep up skinning... it's non stop running back & forth.

Comentario de Luxnoctis

I agree, they must have changed the drop rate. I used to get about 1 a day. Now I'm lucky if I see 1 in a week. I do the Sons of Hodir dailies and get tons of jormungar scales, and often take out a mammoth pack or two, but I haven't seen a single arctic fur since I got Friendly (and I'm nearly Revered.)

Comentario de TheRaven7

Why are there Arctic furs? Since when was the Arctic on Azeroth?

Comentario de TheFourWudu

Great place to acquire Arctic Fur is in Borean Tundra, right outside Warsong Hold near 44, 47 AoE'ing the packs of rhinos. Most of the time they drop Matted Fur, which sells for 2 gold/stack to vendor. You can also sell the Rhino Meat on the AH for a bit of gold.

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Comentario de Letesha

I finally saw two drop since my last post 17 days ago... No biggie though, I was actually farming for leather and the Fur was a nice surprise.

Comentario de StolenLegacy

The word "arctic" can generally be used interchangeable with " cold" (Arctic Temperatures ).Since Northrend is cold, there are Arctic Furs.

Comentario de TwentiethCHeffa

The best place I've found to farm these is the cave with 'Cavedweller Worgs' north of Brunnhildar Village and south of the Terrace of the Makers in Storm Peaks. I went there as a resto druid with a prot warrior friend helping. Just inside the entrance of the cave are four packs of worgs who respawn incredibly fast.

The mobs are quite easy to kill so my warrior friend was able to kill them very fast and didn't take much damage so didn't need any healing. We were there for about an hour and I got 57 Heavy Borean Leather and 4 Arctic Fur in that time plus plenty of Jormungar Scales (there are a couple of worms in there too). We got plenty of greens as well. The drop rate of Arctic Fur will be the same as anywhere else I guess, but this seems like an easy, profitable place to grind.

Comentario de akakabooto

Tried farming this place and was amazed how many drops i got. 12 arctic furs in 1 hour. Went away for some heroic and came back a few hours later and farmed for another hour. Dident get even 1 the second farming sesion. So in conclusion i think the drop-rate is werry luck based.

Comentario de Kopking

I was just about to sell these to a vendor, but I was on the AH anyway so I checked out the price. I'm glad I did.I thought they were just trash, blue albeit, but trash.

Comentario de DrNick

It can be me, but i skinned a total of more then 250 mobs today,while in instance, while farming, while questing, you name it.

And i got 0 Arctic Fur drops.

Is it me? or more ppl having the same idea that droprate is nerfed?since normally i had like every 100skins 1 Arctic Fur,and in hc's even more..

Comentario de somadelnocha

I swear, when I see people offering to sell one for anywhere over 100g, I want to punch them. It's ridiculous.

Anywho, yes, the droprate does seem to be very influenced by luck. it seems to come in waves. I went for two weeks without skinning a single one, then run one heroic Violet Hold and skin 2 in there in the first 6 waves. It was crazy.

Comentario de archeronx

Was on my mage the other day, farming shoveltusk flank for my raiding. Spent under an hour, and had a skinner with me (DUalboxing) Ended up with: 172 Borean leather, 140 Shoveltusk flank and 8 Artic furs. Those shoveltusks had high droprate it seems.

Comentario de RyanLuster88

personaly - id say these drop probly 1 in 100 kills if ur lucky : but as far as a true Droprate, its hard to find because its varies by mob. a Mob that skins to drop borean leather, scraps, a scale, AND arctic fur is essentialy rolling %'s on 4 levels. A mob that drops either Borean leather or Arctic fur is calculatin percents on 2 levels, makin those mobs easier to get drops on. (or so all my farming proves) - so yes : 1 every hour is common if u skin the right mobs. But the faster you kill and skin, the faster your gona get furs.

Comentario de jeremiahfira

I suppose then I'm massively lucky. I'm a lvl 69 lock hunting the wooly rhino calves in a group at a time, and within 20 minutes of hunting and skinning all of them, I've gotten 3 arctic furs :0

Edit: Make that 5 furs in 30 minutes o.0

Comentario de Lesailles

The Cavedweller Worgs in Gimorak's Den no longer respawn at an above average rate. Before the 1/20/09 patch, you could pull the 8 Worgs in the first room of the cave and AoE them down, skin then, and rinse and repeat because of a quick respawn rate.

The respawn rate for each Worg pack seems to be around 2-3 minutes.

Comentario de vke2

why can not you sale it for not so mutch money?

Comentario de bababa

Since 3.0.8 went live, I haven't gotten a single arctic furs from the Worgs....and yes respawn seems to have been increased. Probably killed around 400 of them.

Comentario de spicysuus

I killed a lot of reed bull ( 31.7/74.4) in Howling ford and did get Artic Fur from skinning.

Comentario de danroe

I would be happier if it were a Black Lotus near mint

hur hur hur

(FYI it is a Magic: The Gathering card wich is normally sold for 1500+ €...)

Comentario de miniross

I think i have been extreamly lucky then if you say the droprate is very low. Yesterday i got 6 within an hour. 2 days in Northrend and I skinned 7 in total. Sells for 95g on Frostmane. Great cash for me :D

Comentario de milalyr

I skinned many an arctic fur in the nerubian-infested area right around Warsong Hold, Borean Tundra. These nerubians are just so numerous, and in general they were a great source of borean leather, but in an hour or so of farming I must have gotten about 3 of my 5 arctic furs. :)

Comentario de flapjacker

Skinning/JC....huh?

Comentario de zariplz

Hehe my first trip to northrend I skinned one of these and didn't even notice.Not sure how much they go for on my server, I'll check the prices once I'm back in town again. :D

Comentario de bobbyjr

Sigh. Looks like this place is turning into thottbot mach 2. Why was that post rated so high?

Comentario de Bloodsaga

ok i see every one saying what a great place they have to farm these and how awsome there drop rate was but truth in all this is. you can get a fur from any mob that you can skin in northrend so to get the furs you have to find a place you like to farm maybe get some meat to cook on the side ... but just farm leather is all you have to do. and eventually it will drop.

Comentario de Hammerskull

I always kind of go " Errr, wot?" when I skin these of a dragon or a Nerubian.

Comentario de rzzr

Hold on to these as the price is about to rocket. Most of the LW recipes coming in the new patch will require large amounts of arctic fur to make. These and Icy Dragonscales are the main reagents.

Comentario de triggz

God I hope not. I just can't get these to drop anymore. I burned through the 30 or so that I had accumulated to get to 435 LW, and I know I've had a ton more levelling LW.. they used to drop all the time but now I have nothing to show after an hour of farming rhinos shoveltusks and worgs. wtf!

Comentario de garvdart

Hold on to these as the price is about to rocket. Most of the LW recipes coming in the new patch will require large amounts of arctic fur to make. These and Icy Dragonscales are the main reagents "rzzr"

The 1% rate resets per mob u kill so even 100mobs killed does not guarantee u will get one so best bet is aoe farm and hope for the best buy low sell high....and listen too rzzr because hes right 6 more recipes will increase the demand for the actic furs esp if it takes two too purchase the recipe in dalaran. and another 8 just as one component....Anyone got a Idea what will be the 6? maybe something else thats a rare skinning drop? or another material from another proffesion.

Comentario de Alecksander

I've found in my experience there are a few spots that are great for farming these, better than others.

The Area in Storm Peaks near the Engine of the Makers with all the Rhinos and Wyrms. Can farm for hours killing the rhinos and wyrms, and any wyrms killed by people doing the Frosthold daily. Lots of leather, nice gold yielding trash, and meat. Plus if ur REALLY lucky you might come across the Time-Lost Proto-Drake.

The Mammoths around the D.E.H.T.A. encampment in Borean Tundra are extremely numerous and drop a lot of gold-yielding trash, meat and more Arctic Furs than any other place for me. Plus, so many people are terrified of getting the D.E.H.T.A. debuff (kiddies, just don't go near the mean druids and they won't hurt you :-P ), no one really kills them much.

The Hardknuckle apes in Scholazar Basin have a sweet respawn time and are great to farm Arctic Fur from, especially if you're doing the Frenzyheart quest The Ape Hunter's Slave. Not to mention these guys have one of the best Chilled Meat drop rates I've ever seen. It's true, dealing with their vendor trash can be a pain, but if ur already working with the Frenzyheart, their base camp is right next to the ape's area, so vendoring your trash shouldn't be a huge issue.

Good Farming!

Comentario de protftw

Yeah, I think they really nerfed the drop rate last patch. I used to go out near warsong hold and farm 7-10 of these an hour off aoe farming the rhinos. Now an hour and none, killed probably near 1000 mobs.

Comentario de BigRed0404

the best place ive found to grind out and farm them up is scalawag point in the howling fjord go to where all the bears are i found four in 20 mins then it dropped down to bout 2 an hour but it is the easyest place to farm it in my opinon

Comentario de collide9

My recent experience with my 71 DK seemingly belies these posts. Without BS, went to Dragonblight and obtained quests in Star's Rest from night elf Jodi Moonsong. Gotten "The Liquid Fire" quest mandating to kill Blighted Elk and Rabid Grizzlies. Before i finished the mobkill requirements, gotten 2 arctic furs! Followed by another quest "Kill The Cultist" headed to Azjol-Nerub. Anub'ar arachnids are a plenty, and after 20 minutes of farming 2 more arctic furs dropped! (With an added luck-no horde nuissance).

Either I'm a lucky SOB or this is the highest arctic fur drop in Northrend. That's 4 arctic fur in less than an hour to about 30 mobkills! (I'll be back to these spots soon for statement validation). Ca-chinggg!

Comentario de darkane

I'm not entirely sure about the drop rate because at the moment i have 8x arctic fur sitting in my inventory, I skinned 5 during the sholazar basin quests for The Great Hunter's Challenge. Not sure if this was my lucky day or what, but if I'm honest i haven't even skinned a single one since.

Comentario de Johanpomppas

Raising Skinning from 375 to 450 I was able to get 1 Arctic Fur and around 600 borean leather... RNG strikes again :/

Comentario de Slurrymcpeas

I would recommend the Rhinos in Borean, got 3 of them in less than 20 minutes

edit; Typo

Comentario de Aranor

While AoE grinding Chilled Meat off of mammoths in Borean Tundraon my druid 2 of these dropped in 15 minutes, they are a great source of money.

Comentario de hughhoofner

Most people only come on here to report when they've been having a bad experience, so take each post that has someone complaining with a grain of salt.

Comentario de latherus

You can purchase these from Lhara, the Darkmoon Faire Exotic Goods merchant for 12g. She runs out quick and her restock isn't always in Arctic Fur, I've found if you buy out her goods entirely (besides the gems) her restock rate is congruent with 15-20mins.

Comentario de latherus

You can purchase these from Lhara, the Darkmoon Faire Exotic Goods merchant for 12g. She runs out quick and her restock isn't always in Arctic Fur, but if you'd rather buy for cheap and sell high, this seems like the easiest way to go.

Comentario de lfrit

I guess I can confirm this.

I was AoE-farming the mammoths in Storm Peaks with my DK for ~4 hours w/out downtimes. I've killed about 600 Stoic Mammoths and about 100 Roaming Jormungar. Only one Arctic Fur dropped.

Kinda frustrating since I planned on leveling LW with leg armors to 440+. Hope they up the rate with 3.1.

Comentario de lfrit

Urr..just to let y'all know. These do NOT drop from the Stoic Mammoths which appear after getting friendly with Hodir and the linked phasing. I found out the hard way (killing 600+ of 'em)

Comentario de ozanuyan

Maybe a superstition but it looks like the mobs that are killed the least are more likely to drop these. O.o

Comentario de chase1round

good mention of sharks, i got 2 furs in about 6 sharks!

Comentario de maffelulu

I grind these in Sholazar Basin on the grey gorillas there, they are packed with 5 or more and are neutral so they wont attack you. I always get atleast 2 in half an hour sometimes more. I also easily grind a full heavy borean stack and a few stacks of chilled meat in that 30min.

Comentario de naxxcr

I C WAT U DID THAR

Comentario de sergow

Just skin all of the time and skin what people leave behind. I was lucky enough to get 4 furs outside of Warsong Hold within my first hour in Northrend questing. Those skitterers and other nerubians dropped fur like crazy. There is no better feeling than skinning someone else's kill that they left for an Arty. I just skinned a dragonkin in a heroic that dropped it.

Comentario de webkilla

You want the quick and easy on how to farm arctic fur?

ok, here's the trick:

Find the LOWEST level skinable mobs in northrend - and then get farming.

With lower level mobs you can hopefully kill/loot/skin more faster, giving a higher possibility of an arctic fur drop.

thats it really...

Comentario de tisjhan

has the drop rate on these been increased in 3.1? i seem to be finding a lot more of them, and the price on the AH seems to reflect this as well

Comentario de Ceronn

Read comprehension ftw. I said SHOULD, not IS. There is a difference. Meaning, ideally, it SHOULD be that way.

Comentario de Hurono

Comentario de ltc3

yeah 1/100 means every skin has a chance, the computer rolls a dice and if its for say, a 1 then it drops, the chance of this dropping is the same as rolling a 100 in a roll, and chance doesn't remember

Comentario de trancedream

I'm skinning showeltusks in howling fjord and i've found 7 arctic furs in like 4 hours and it's loads of the showeltusks so they nerver ends so you can just skinn them non stop, a very good place imo

Comentario de therealxtreme12

I think the best place to farm for leather is Sholozar Basin with the Primordial Drakes as they drop Borean Leather, Icy Dragonscale and Arctic Fur.

Comentario de Marudrin

I walked into Northrend.Skinned about 50 rhinos.Got 4 arctic fur out of it.They were a pretty good drop rate for me.Sorry for anyone else that doesn't have the best luck imo.

Comentario de Blargaz

haha it's funny to see all the comments about horrible drop rates when I myself killed 2 hydras in sholozar basin and both dropped arctic fur(skinned of course). I consider myself very lucky :)

Comentario de mardinman

Dudes i know the anwser to all farming problems.the best farming place and i say this with the experiance of getting 10 Arctic Furs in a month is temple city of en'kilah at the right top of Borean Tundra this is where the fur drop.

Good Farm!

Comentario de arifbuda

If you are a Blood Deathknight or Paladin this is very easy to farm:

1)Go to Scholazar Basin.2) To the Northeast of the Glimmering Pillar you will find herds of Shattertusk Mammoth,Bull and Calfs.3)Ride near them with a mount if you are a DK and cast Death &Decay in the middle of them.Warning: Make sure you have Blood because of Rune tap etc. If you are a Pala ride middle them and cast concentration in the middle of them.4)Kill them all and skin them. In combat check your health and don't die.5)Skin them.This drops a lot of Borean Leather too.

Also I didn't played a paladin since pre TBC so correct me palas if I have made a mistake.I dropped 2 Artic Furs with this technic in 10 mins ^^.

Comentario de Imortel

If you only want arctic fur the two most important things you have to keep in mind are:-how packed is the zone-how fast can you kill the mobs

The place I've starting grinding in is around 64 11 in the Borean Tundra. There are packs of 5 mobs roaming around that area. 2 big ones(8k HP) 3 smaller ones(7k HP).

You will all say that some other places have better drop rates(false-99% of Northrend beasts have 1% chance to "drop" a fur).The beauty of this place is that it is like the wolf cave in Storm Peaks pre nerf but only better. You are literally swarmed by the packs of Mammoths. You barely have time to loot and skin a pack before it respawns.

From 2 days of aoeing on a mage I can say Furs drop on the 90-100 mob kill mark. They drop a lot of junk and Mammoth meat and some Chilled meat.Give it a try and see how it goes.

Comentario de Nylanderz

They are now being sold for about 115g each buyout at Daggerspine EU.. Really frustrating since i bought them for about 60g last night

Comentario de Gandazar

I find it odd that the game has English words when it takes place in Azeroth, not England.

See what I did there?

English (and French, and pretty much every european language) has tons of terms derived from Greek, Latin and Arabic. "Arctic" is a perfectly valid English word, and as such it makes perfect sense to use it in the English version of the game.

Or do you also avoid using the word "arctic" because you "are not a greek person"? ;-)

Comentario de Holycowtres

These are under 20g on Dawnbringer currently.

Comentario de Veeshan

Not sure where the 50g buyout is coming from. These have been 20g-30g since a few weeks after launch. Horde-side, anyway.

Comentario de Facitchefen

Me attacked by stupid turtle!Me kill turtle!Turtle give me Fur!

Argh!

Comentario de caboosefanatic

For god sake people, DO NOT POST how much it goes for on your server or what mob you got it off of, ALL skinnable mobs in Northrend have a chance of this dropping.

FYI- the price for items always change

Comentario de SayneKamari

HI DR. NICK!

Comentario de firestarter96

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44128# can be skinned from all beasts mobs in Northrend .I know they can be selled at seller for 3 gold but safe them .They can be used for much better things:

Comentario de Coren

Is there any chance they reduced the drop rate across the board? I remember getting like 2-3 a day just from skinning mobs while leveling (which werent that many) when i first starting WotlK. Now that I am 80, I spent 2-3 hours aoe farming (which means like ~1000 kills) and I have yet to get one. Anyone have similar experience?

Comentario de Coren

Is there any chance they reduced the drop rate across the board? I remember getting like 2-3 a day just from skinning mobs while leveling (which werent that many) when i first starting WotlK. Now that I am 80, I spent 2-3 hours aoe farming (which means like ~1000 kills) and I have yet to get one. Anyone have similar experience?

Comentario de netalia

For Arctic Fur, I like to farm at Argent Vanguard area. Pre-quest completion.

NOTE: If you have completed the quests there, the mob's will NOT be available.

1. The mobs have a fast spawn time.2. Argent NPCs in the area will assist in killing attackers.3. Cocooned NPC's can open a paladin who will buff and heal you, or yield another enemy to fight.4. Good farming spot for borean leather.5. Good farming spot for nerubian chitin.6. Good farming spot for Frostweave. Especially if you are a tailor.

Comentario de Lunitara

Just got my first off a Grizzly Bear in Grizzly Hills. Lame drop rate.

Comentario de Polarballs

It appears that in patch 3.2 Blizz nerfed the drop rate for Arctic Fur. I used to get one or two per hour of farming. I haven't had one drop for me in the past 12 hours of farming. I farm everything in Shalozar and the Worms, Worgs, and Mammoths in Storm Peaks.

Comentario de RogueDaGreat

In my opinion the best way to farm these as a rogue is outside Angmar's Hammer in dragonblight pulling about 6-8 bears and some deer's with Fan of Knives and after about 30-50kills I got 1 fur and about 25borean leather. I belive that that's the best place to farm them since you do AoE pull of 8+ mobs really easyly and fast and after doing the whole circle the mobs at the place you had started at have respawned, so to check up the goodies of this place = you have to be uber stupid die - u kill the mobs easy - imba respawns - you can gank hordes if you are ally :D.

Comentario de Arucad

Comentario de DelrithEREU

As lower and higher level mobs have the same drop rate for Arctic Fur, its of course smarter to kill the lower level enemies. This stated, Borean Tundra has to be far the best zone for farming Furs in general, since the legendary quickspawn cave in the Storm Peaks was farmed to hell not too long ago.

Comentario de ArteL1986

Best place i have found so far through skinning is in Scholozar Basin, Basically starting at Nesingway basecamp and doing a full circle up towards The Makers Perch and back down to the starting point, on the way you come across Dreadsabers http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=28001 and Shardhorn Rhinos http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=28009 on constant respawn :)

Comentario de gilby123

Noticed it finally got updated on the skinned from section, but Anub and Icehowl in TOC 10 and 25 now drop these 100% of the time, along with 12-16 or so leather.

Comentario de Brutalinax

I have concluded (after trying out pretty much every single spot in northrend several times)that the best spot for farming these is the field between amber ledge and warsong hold in Borean Tundra with at least a hundred rhinos. The drop rates vary too little to go for a high drop rate. According to my experience it is much better to go for numerous kills instead. You can easily pull 20 or more of these rhinos and take them all out in no time due to their low hp. ON TOP OF THAT! their drop chance on Rhino meat is brilliant. On my server these sell for at least 20-40g per stack and they add around 20% to my income. i skinned 6 Arctic furs in around 1 hour by killing around 500-1000 mobs. There are so many of them that even if 3 level 80s are farming at the spot there will still be enough for AOEing.

Comentario de Godmyster

where can i get a better drop on this? ive been trying to look all over NR...

Comentario de lppa2006

Something i have noticed from farming these.. once you have 2 drop in a row you wont get any for quite awhile... ive notice this twice now, it may be a co-inky-dink but so far it looks like ill have to go through another thousand (give or take a few hundred) kills before another will drop... just wondering if anyone else has noticed this

Comentario de Godmyster

where are he best places to skin for them?

Comentario de ozanuyan

Wasn't exactly talking about that. I'm talking about normal mobs. If some mobs are farmed less than the others then they drop better items. As I said could be my imagination. Try it...

Comentario de rzzr

Rumour has it that you will be able to buy these for 10 Heavy Borean Leather in patch 3.3

Comentario de xenutu

100% chance to skin this from Icehowl and Anub'arak in 10/25 + 9-15 Borean Leather, so it fastest skinner wins!

Icehowl heroic 10/25 are not skinnable (never seen a dead Anub'arak so can't say :P)

Trial of the Crusader has probably doubled the amount of Artic Fur avaliable on my server

edit: why is this being downrated, its all true, and no one has mentioned it before -.-

Comentario de projmunoz

Comentario de xenutu

100% chance to get this off Icehowl/Anub'arak 10/25 but not heroic versions, fastest skinner wins! bit the like those elementals in SSC that dropped loads of herbs, gotta be in range and spam clicking when the last item is looted to have a chance

Comentario de Skullhawk13

Downrate me if you must but I am confused for the life of meI got ten of these so far....and not a one came from anything with fur...Why do the wizards waste their time with this o.O?

Comentario de mg785

Best location I have found for farming Arctic Fur is in Sholazar Basin.

Gorillas located in the Southeastern section of the zone are not hostile so you can pull at your own pace. But, they are close enough to AoE down if you have that capability. Chilled Meat drop off these Gorillas, along with a mass of trash drops. Be sure to have lots of bag space (2 empty bags) available if you choose to farm these for a while. Additionally, if you find yourself filling up, you can visit the nearby villages to sell off the trash items (Frenzyheart Hill for those aligned with the Frenzyheart Tribe; Rainspeaker Canopy for those aligned with The Oracles)

Comentario de Kevisaurus

Comentario de jgheld

Can be skinned from anything skinnable In Northrend, and I believe 66 is the lowest level skinnable mob in Northrend, so 66 * 5 = 330? But I'd get to 340-345 to be safer.

Comentario de Kujja

Gold making tip: check the price of arctic fur on your server, if you can buy 10 heavy borean leather for cheaper than that, then buy heavy borean leather and buy an arctic fur for it (I just made 1k from that in a few min)

Comentario de soccrprson

im curious to know if the drop rate of these has increased since 3.3 because i just turned 68 on my hunter and i was in borean doing the quests and within the first say 30 mobs i got 3 arctic furs, was this just luck or an increase in drop rate?

Comentario de dawebbo

Read up on binomial distributions before posting this garbage. It's pretty basic maths...

Comentario de CernAuchEU

My suggestion is this.AFur has the same droprate for every skinable mob in northrend therefore it does not matter where you farm for this mob so long as your never waiting for mobs to respawn (cooldown between skinfests)the Rhinos outside warsong hold are very good but.... on average they only drop leather scraps (5 scraps = one leather)the worgs in grimlocks den however drop 1 leather per each skin at least. sometimes up to 3 leather from just one mob.Futhermore there are Jormurs(spellcheck) nearby that are also skinable but they drop a unique Jornmur scale. which can be used in LW so can be put to use or sold via the auction house. For these reasons i think Grims cave is the best location to farm for leather. There is little or no cooldown between skinfests as there are always plenty of worgs and worms. Furthmore spending tons of time in the stormpeaks has its advantages! Firsly its a wonderful zone and second the rare time lost proto drake. I happened to be lucky enough to aquire one during a skinning trip :)just my two copper.

Comentario de ma73

well lol i was reading this and skinned an arcane serpent lol xD

Comentario de Nicehaiir

Remember now you can buy them for 10 Heavy Borean Leather

Comentario de jinso7

The arctic fur can be bought from Braeg Stoutbeard for 10 heavy borean leather

Comentario de InorganicMatter

Since Blizz lowered the material requirements for the 226 craftables in this last patch, the demand for Fur has gone way up since people can actually afford to craft those items now.

If you're a LW, for some real quick gold, check if the price of 3 times a stack of Borean Leather is less than that of one Fur. If it is, buy em all, stitch into Heavy, trade for Fur, and relist. Made 500g for 3 minutes of work.

Comentario de SalemSaberhaggen

I wonder when will do non-skinners get a "Skin" button to roll this item, as well as we enchanters have to roll our Abyss Crystals and Dream Shards. Just to be FAIR. Thanks.

Comentario de sniperlif3

yeah it is a bear, or rather an "ursa" in todays world we just look at just under half of the actual ursa major constellation, which is known as the big dipper, when in reality the ursa major looks like a 4 legged animal, whether its a bear or something else im sure that doesnt matter

Comentario de blackjello

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Comentario de modicumofrespite

The small difference is that everyone could roll greed on the DE-able items and sell them to the vendor. I never did on my alts, because the enchanting value was too great for the enchanters. On my enchanter, I appreciated when others did the same.

What bugs me is leveling 450 enchanting at a gazillion gold per enchanting material and having the mats drop to virtually free once I finally leveled. It took me almost two years to level enchanting. I've leveled other professions in a single day. Now every scrub out there can level enchanting in no time/cost at all. Where's the payoff for the two year commitment?

Comentario de pyrobob

Yes, because if theres is a disenchater they ALWAYS get the item if no one needs.

No, rather they have to roll with everyone else on it. so you offer a disenchanting hand none willingly, its not hurting you. if anything it makes your life easier, through more enchanting business, more tips and the like.

And its not even like everyone has a use for the fur. Or anything you'd get from skinning. Compare that to enchanting materials, which every single person in this game should be using? Lets not.

Comentario de Swamped

Sells for 100g each on my server, really nice. I am lucky too so i get tons of them. 15k in a day or two, not bad.

Comentario de haxser5050

Well now they can be skinned by the 1st and last boss in TOTC (10m and 25m) and Arctic Furs sell for around 75g each thats around 300g every week for skinners if they run 10m and 25m and skin every boss, easy money for skinners like myself :)

Comentario de haggers

you think a dragon would leave its balls unguarded against the harsh winds of northrend?

Comentario de Scadoosh

I just got 2 in one run through of Utgarde Keep from 2 Enslaved Proto-drakes :P

Comentario de Aveliia

I found a good spot if anyone cares, the odds are better since they spawn in a group of 7-8. the monkeys in Sholazar Basin near the wasp hive in the south there are 3 groups of them, and by the time you kill the third group and fly back they have respawned, or close to it. Happy FUR hunting :P

Comentario de Gandazar

the constellation "Ursa Major" is very "bear" like

Bears in your part of the world must be rather strange if you think that this...

Hence adding credibility to the theory that the constellation was named after the region (the arctic circle, where bears lived), and not the other way around.

Comentario de Anonymousman

im just gonna throw this out there, but what if the Arctic Furs are a predetermined skin? just like bosses in dungeons/raids, once u enter the instance the loot is decided and set, what if its the same way for the mobs of northrend?

Comentario de Shutingun

Another cool place I found was at the Eastern corner of The Altar of Mam'Toth, Zol'Heb side. The Gundrak Raptors give a nice portion of Borean Leather (1-3, mostly 3) and about 1.5% drop of Arctic Fur. Plus there are Enraged Mammoth (Arctic Fur 1.5% & Chunk o' Mammoth 80%) and Zul'Drak Bats which also give Borean Leather. You can also farm Frostweave Cloth from Mam'toth Diciple.

Also in the area, Frozen Herb (Herbalism) & Cobalt Deposit (Minning).

Comentario de akilleuss

Arctic FurItem Level 75Sell Price: 3g x2 is also a requirment for the mechano hog i need to lvl my alt for it

Comentario de Whoisthiscook

I just received three of these furs almost in a row while leveling my skinning and leatherworking in Storm Peaks, got annoyed a little :D

EDIT: 20 minutes later I stumbled upon two more.. from 1 mob. :PEDIT2: and a while later I got another one, why do I keep getting these?EDIT3: ok got again one of these not gonna post anymore about this getting so annoyed :PEDIT4: ok I lied I got 2 furs off one mob again -.-' don't even need them so..

EDIT: for Bradadad, can't I post if something funny happens to me? :P

Comentario de digginginahole

My alt character is a Skinner and I wanted to make some good gold quick. So i farmed Arctic Fur using this guide (each piece gave me 50 gold on my server in the auction house!

Comentario de remerson73

Comentario de renegadelove

Many of the former places to skin lots of animals and farm these have been nerfed. therefore, any where now is all you have.

Sholazar will perhaps be your best best of getting a lot of animals with a quick respawn rate.

Good Luck!

Comentario de Wimbleton

I haven't found any current use for these other than leveling up Leatherworking and Engineering and these sell erratically in my servers' auction houses, mostly on weekends and when engineers and LWs are looking for skill points.

But I have found that farming any of the areas suggested below generates a lot of Heavy Borean Leather, which can be used for the Pack of Endless Pockets, the Mammoth Mining Bag and the Trappers Traveling Pack.. These always sell well in the AH and probably will continue until they are replaced by something bigger.